Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-20
$ A 7 E
OF THE
OLD FAIR GROUND PROPERTY.
One HVndred and Seventy.twO
Desirable Lots On Wheel
ing island.

JN PURSUANCE OF a DECREE OF THE
| Circuit Cont Of Ohio county, W. Va, entered
on the Sd day OF June, lSS7, in the case Of Ogle-
bay and others, against Brown and Others, the
undersigned special commissioners will, on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1887,
beginning nj y O'Clock a m, sell at public anc-
ton, at the front door ofthe Court House Of Ohio
county, West Virginia, the tract Of land belong
ing to the Northwest Virginia Agricultural So
ciety, knOgn as the old FAIR GROUND
PROPERTY, " situated OH Wheeling Island, north
Of Zsne street, and west Of North Huron street,
and containing, when measured To the top Of the
liver bank, twenty-five and twelvehundredths
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
TO the river.
Under authority OF raid decree the said com.
missioners have caused the property 10 he diyid-
cd into arCels. and have laid oil streets and
alleys through the same. A plat. showing the
arrangement Of blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared, and may he seen at the Office
Of George Hook, Clerk Of the County Court Of
Ohio county. Printed copies Of said plat may
oil and after October LIST, be had Of the under
signed.
The property will fret be offered rs a whole,
afterwards in blocks, and then In lots, as shown
on the plat, and will be sold In whichever way
may appear the most advantageous. When Of
fercd I'm blocks, the blocks numbered five and
six may be offered together as one parcel. When
offered in lots, two contiguous lots may he offered
together, II bidders 80 desire, 1.-THE whole tract
be sold 70 one purchaser, the streets, alleys and
lots may be disregarded He, In such case, be-
comes the purchaser OF the streets and alleys
within the boundaries Of the tract.
II any block be sold separately IN one pur.
chaser, he, OF course, may disregard the lot lines
within the block, bat alleys must be opened. II
the blocks numbered FIVE and six be sold To-
get7er 10 one purchaser, the street running be-
tween said blocks, AM the alley running through
block FIVE, may be disregarded, at the election OF
such purchaser, to be made and declared at the
time o. the purchase. II he 50 elect to disregard
land clOsel said street and alley, then the south
end Of said street where IL passes through block
seven, fronting on Zsne street, and extending
north 70 the alley parallel with Zane street, will
be sold as q lot or lots.
There are on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and Thirty tree, Of which about
eighty are LombaN1y Poplar, Of the rem inder
the greater part are Maple. All OF said trees are
well grown, probably more than half Of them
having trunks q foot or more in diameter.
Terms OF SALE-EAch purchaser 70 pay in
hand one-third. at least OF his purchase money,
and as much more thereof as he may choose, and
the residue, II any, in two equal inStalments,
bearing interest from the day Of sale, and pay.
able respectively. in one and two years thereaf.
ter, the deferred payments 70 be secured by
notes with good personal security. But IL any
Do. chaser pay in hand one-half, or more, Of his
pureha~e money, his notes for the deferred install
ments oftheseme shall be taken without per-onal
security. IN every case, however, the title must
he retained a. security until payment In full.
GEORGE B. CALDWELL,
WIN. ERSKISE,
Special Commissioners.